Friday, August 20, 2010

Update from Kelowna #1


A few pictures from Kelowna during the run-up to Nationals, courtesy of Marie-Claude Gregoire who is out there doing the National Technical Officials (NTO) course.


The gate at YVR before boarding for Kelowna. The dress-code among athletes was knee-length Bermudas, Knee high compression socks (socks, not guards, socks) and sandals. Argghhh my eyes!


We're in Kelowna!


The Kelowna boardwalk looks nice for a relaxed early morning run but Jason's advice is "save your energy"; sounds ominous....


Dessert; I hope TriCan was paying!


The new ITU Competition Rules. We'll be hearing a lot about these in the future. I hope the new yellow/red cards aren't that size!


Official Official's uniform :)



Carpet (timing mats?) all laid out and ready to set


News conference with Olympic Gold and Silver medalist Simon Whitfield and the triathlon world's current athlete-du-jour Paula Findley.

Dream TZ. Doesn't look like this is the Elite one tho'.

Thanks MC

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3 comments:

  1. Hello from Kelowna!
    The dessert was the tri-a-cake special: lemon, carrot and chocolate cakes!

    The green carpet is half the beech pontoon we built today. All elite athlete has 24 x 28 inches of green carpet.
    Beautiful weather, it will be a great race!

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  2. I hope that new rule book doesn't allow for age group drafting. Yikes!

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  3. That new rule book needs amending PDQ; there's some nasty stuff in there about non-draft-legal aero-bars that has to be sorted ASAP!

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